Michigan State Head Men\u2019s Basketball Coach Tom Izzo joined Dan Patrick on The Dan Patrick Show as we are all eagerly awaiting the Final Four games coming up on Saturday. He shares his experience facing each of the remaining teams and talks about the upheaval permeating college athletics with the new NIL and transfer portal rules that had him apparently in serious conversation with the Phoenix Suns about taking their head coaching position last year.<\/p>\n
Tom Izzo: \u201cI’ve had, you know, more than a couple of job offers in the NBA and looked at one last\u00a0year with Phoenix, you know, and my former player, Mat Ishbia, and that was hard.\u00a0That was a hard thing to turn down because, number one, I kind of wanted to go with him. And number two\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Dan Patrick: \u201cWait, so they offered you the head coaching job?\u201d<\/p>\n
Tom: \u201cWell, we talked seriously about it, let’s say that. And then number two is, you know I\u2019ve been pretty vocal about it, I don\u2019t like what\u2019s going on in college athletics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan State Head Men\u2019s Basketball Coach Tom Izzo joined Dan Patrick on The Dan Patrick Show as we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,1086,1218,6,2065,472,4045,1217,66,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-692179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-fox","10":"tag-fsr","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-phoenix-suns","14":"tag-phoenixsuns","15":"tag-radio","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}